Picking up the pace: Effects of global temporal context on sensitivity to the tempo of auditory sequences

McAuley, J. Devin; Miller, Nathaniel S.

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“…However, it should be noted that their research did not attempt to measure the contextual sensitivity of reproduced tempos, but merely demonstrated that very familiar songs were reproduced at fairly accurate tempo rates (+/-8%). McAuley and colleagues (Jones & McAuley, 2005;McAuley & Miller, 2007) demonstrated how perceived tempo might shift with local context (sequence effects) and global context (distribution effects), so there are clear contradictions to the hypothesis of absolute tempo memory. On the other hand, note that the equations we used to describe contextual effects on tempo generally assume that absolute values of tempo (S i ) are acted upon, but these absolute values may be used in a relative way when judging the tempo value.…”

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“…Research using comparative judgments of short tone sequences has revealed that tempo perception adapts to global and local tempo contexts (Jones & McAuley, 2005;McAuley & Miller, 2007). For instance, the point of subjective equality for the same 500-ms tone sequences was inferred to be slower in a slow global context but faster in a fast global context.…”

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Context effects on tempo and pleasantness judgments for Beatles songs

Rashotte

Wedell

2012

Atten Percept Psychophys

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Context effects on tempo and pleasantness judgments of different tempos were demonstrated in three experiments using Beatles songs. In Experiments 1 and 2, we explored how listening to versions of the same song that were played at different tempos affected tempo and pleasantness ratings. In both experiments, contrast effects were found on judgments of tempo, with target tempos rated faster when context tempos were slow than when they were fast. In both experiments, we also showed that the peak of the pleasantness rating function shifted toward the values of the context tempos, reflecting disordinal context effects on pleasantness relationships. Familiarity with the songs did not moderate these effects, and shifts in tempo ratings did not correlate with shifts in most pleasant target tempos when context was manipulated within subjects. In Experiment 3, we examined how manipulations of context tempos for one song affected judgments of the same song as compared with judgments of other more or less similar songs. For tempo ratings, contrast effects transferred to ratings of a similar song, but for pleasantness ratings, assimilative shifts of ideals were found only for the same song and not for similar songs. This pattern of results was supportive of independent bases for the two context effects.

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Context effects on tempo and pleasantness judgments for Beatles songs

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Wedell

2012

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“…In most studies using this method, intervals last between 250 msec and 1 sec. With this method, it has been shown that using multiple-instead of single-interval presentations improves discrimination (Drake & Botte, 1993), and that this improvement depends not only on the number of intervals in the first sequence (usually standard), but also on the number of intervals in the second (comparison intervals) sequence (McAuley & Miller, 2007;Miller & McAuley, 2005). Indeed, depending on the modality of stimuli marking sequences, it looks as if increasing the number of comparison intervals, regardless of whether they are presented first or second, is the key factor affecting discrimination (Grondin & McAuley, 2009).…”

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Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Grondin

2010

Attention, Perception, & Psychophysics

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Suppose someone had to prepare a review article on visual perception, instead of time perception. This individual would probably ask for a series of reviews, with at least one-and probably several-dedicated to color, distance, shape, and motion perception, and maybe to other aspects of visual perception. It would be very difficult to complete the same exercise for time perception since the categories of temporal experiences are not as clearly defined. However, for a reader to understand the scope of a text on time perception, it is essential to develop a representation of what the main research avenues or categories are. The present text should help the reader to grasp the scope of recent literature related to psychological time and time perception.After a brief overview of the various perspectives on what could be meant by psychological time, the review will propose to identify of series of key concepts and empirical findings that should delineate the field of time perception and timing, and will discuss some models of time perception. The article also provides a review of the main recent findings in the field in which a neuroscientific approach to timing is adopted. In this section, the roles of the cerebellum, of the cerebral cortices, and of the basal ganglia in the timing processes are emphasized. Time Perception Beyond the Focus of the Present ReviewThere is a wide range of research on psychological time and temporal processing, mainly because of the ubiquity of time in behavior and the relevance of a temporal perspective in regard to living organisms and events. There is a vast literature in social psychology as to how behavior is shaped by time (see Perret-Clermont, 2005, or Strathman & Joireman, 2005, which includes topics such as time management, time perspective, and time orientation, or the relative value of past and future (Caruso, Gilbert, & Wilson, 2008;Zimbardo & Boyd, 1999). Even within the scope of experimental psychology, some studies have emphasized how the temporal structure of events determines our perception of the world (see the second part of Helfrich, 2003).Some authors who are interested in consciousness have adopted a phenomenological perspective on time (see the first part of Buccheri, Saniga, & Stuckey, 2003). Indeed, time and consciousness have become more closely linked recently with the development of a new area of research on the concept of chronesthesia (awareness of subjective time; Tulving, 2002), as opposed to noetic consciousness (awareness of the world) or autonoetic consciousness (awareness of self in time). Interestingly, there is now evidence that even animals can anticipate the future (Roberts, 2008).There are many psychological time studies related in various ways to memory processes (Block & Zakay, 2008). One research avenue deals with the chronology of events in our lives, particularly the memory of the order of occurrence of these events (Damasio, 2002;Friedman, 1993 The aim of the present review article is to guide the reader through portions of the human time per...

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“…1C): "mean accuracy (constant error)"-the degree of match between physical (⌬T) and subjective [(⌬t)] time intervals on averageand "precision (temporal variance)"-the reciprocal of variance [(⌬t)] of perceived time intervals across repeated trials (McAuley and Miller 2007;Merchant et al 2008b;Zarco et al 2009). Despite the intimate relationship between the two measurements, which has been demonstrated in many visual tasks (Ahissar and Hochstein 1997;Gold et al 2010;Herzog et al 2006;Wenger et al 2008), simultaneous measurements or conjunctive analyses of mean accuracy and precision data have been rare in studies on IT.…”

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Dichotomy in perceptual learning of interval timing: calibration of mean accuracy and precision differ in specificity and time course

Sohn

Lee

2013

Journal of Neurophysiology

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Sohn H, Lee SH. Dichotomy in perceptual learning of interval timing: calibration of mean accuracy and precision differ in specificity and time course. J Neurophysiol 109: 344 -362, 2013. First published October 17, 2012 doi:10.1152/jn.01201.2011.-Our brain is inexorably confronted with a dynamic environment in which it has to fine-tune spatiotemporal representations of incoming sensory stimuli and commit to a decision accordingly. Among those representations needing constant calibration is interval timing, which plays a pivotal role in various cognitive and motor tasks. To investigate how perceived time interval is adjusted by experience, we conducted a human psychophysical experiment using an implicit interval-timing task in which observers responded to an invisible bar drifting at a constant speed. We tracked daily changes in distributions of response times for a range of physical time intervals over multiple days of training with two major types of timing performance, mean accuracy and precision. We found a decoupled dynamics of mean accuracy and precision in terms of their time course and specificity of perceptual learning. Mean accuracy showed feedback-driven instantaneous calibration evidenced by a partial transfer around the time interval trained with feedback, while timing precision exhibited a long-term slow improvement with no evident specificity. We found that a Bayesian observer model, in which a subjective time interval is determined jointly by a prior and likelihood function for timing, captures the dissociative temporal dynamics of the two types of timing measures simultaneously. Finally, the model suggested that the width of the prior, not the likelihoods, gradually shrinks over sessions, substantiating the important role of prior knowledge in perceptual learning of interval timing. time perception; perceptual learning; mean accuracy and precision; Bayesian observer model; prior and likelihood TO ACT ON OBJECTS in an ever-changing and noisy environment, our brain has to dynamically calibrate its spatiotemporal representations of the objects by interacting with the environment.

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Picking up the pace: Effects of global temporal context on sensitivity to the tempo of auditory sequences

Cited by 49 publications

References 31 publications

Context effects on tempo and pleasantness judgments for Beatles songs

Context effects on tempo and pleasantness judgments for Beatles songs

Timing and time perception: A review of recent behavioral and neuroscience findings and theoretical directions

Dichotomy in perceptual learning of interval timing: calibration of mean accuracy and precision differ in specificity and time course

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